The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...
Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...